rosaroca
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Praise the Lord for good friends! Leesa and I were working horses Friday afternoon. We were smelling smoke, but the wind had shifted and was coming south, and I thought it was just carrying the smoke from the fires of the day before. The first thing we knew, Dustin was pulling up in front of the place telling us we had to evacuate NOW! The fire had rekindled and was heading south fast, directly toward Leesa's place.
He hooked up the big trailer that Davie Killman had left at the next door neighbor's and we all started haltering horses and loading them wherever they would fit. My horses, only 2 blocks south, were the next to load. We had TONS of help and even someone to drive my elderly Mom and sister and the dogs out to safety so I didn't have to try to cram everyone into my truck.
As Davie said, her friend Dustin and his dad, both volunteer firefighters, brought Davie's truck back after the horses were relocated and stayed to water down our house roofs. The fire got with about an 1/8 of a mile from Leesa's before they got it put out.
The horses stayed the night at Bev Gray's, most of them running together in her big pasture. Leesa and I brought the first two loads back Saturday around 11 am, but there were several columns of smoke north of us again. So, before we unloaded, we took a car up to see where the fires were. Luckily, they were over a mile north this time and what little breeze was blowing was coming from the east. It wasn't going to blow it towards us, so we went ahead and unloaded then went back for the others still at Bev's.
My eternal thanks to Davie Killman, Bev Gray, Dustin and his parents and girlfriend, all of whom went above and beyond the call to help us.
Oh, and I woke up to a surprise this morning. My pregnant palomino mare, due tomorrow but who hadn't finished her bag yet, gave me a beautiful cremello filly about 8 this morning by my AMHR/ASPC buckskin stallion Establo Picasso. Goldie was not even up in the foaling stall yet, but went into the open barn to foal and kept her newborn out of the rain. Well done, Goldie!
Again, thanks for all who helped evacuate the horses and to all who offered but were just too far away to get there in time. Love ya all!
Pat
He hooked up the big trailer that Davie Killman had left at the next door neighbor's and we all started haltering horses and loading them wherever they would fit. My horses, only 2 blocks south, were the next to load. We had TONS of help and even someone to drive my elderly Mom and sister and the dogs out to safety so I didn't have to try to cram everyone into my truck.
As Davie said, her friend Dustin and his dad, both volunteer firefighters, brought Davie's truck back after the horses were relocated and stayed to water down our house roofs. The fire got with about an 1/8 of a mile from Leesa's before they got it put out.
The horses stayed the night at Bev Gray's, most of them running together in her big pasture. Leesa and I brought the first two loads back Saturday around 11 am, but there were several columns of smoke north of us again. So, before we unloaded, we took a car up to see where the fires were. Luckily, they were over a mile north this time and what little breeze was blowing was coming from the east. It wasn't going to blow it towards us, so we went ahead and unloaded then went back for the others still at Bev's.
My eternal thanks to Davie Killman, Bev Gray, Dustin and his parents and girlfriend, all of whom went above and beyond the call to help us.
Oh, and I woke up to a surprise this morning. My pregnant palomino mare, due tomorrow but who hadn't finished her bag yet, gave me a beautiful cremello filly about 8 this morning by my AMHR/ASPC buckskin stallion Establo Picasso. Goldie was not even up in the foaling stall yet, but went into the open barn to foal and kept her newborn out of the rain. Well done, Goldie!
Again, thanks for all who helped evacuate the horses and to all who offered but were just too far away to get there in time. Love ya all!
Pat
